Creating and reusing templates

- Now once you complete your composition…inside of Edge Animate,…you can save your composition as a template,…and then you can open a brand new document…based on that individual template.…So to demonstrate this, I'm going to be working with…the finished "symbols" file from the last lesson.…So if I come over here to the Library panel,…in the Symbols area,…we have the two symbols that we created,…One for the hand, and one for the sugar cube,…and then in the Images directory, we can see…all of the graphics that were part of this composition.…So from here, I'm simply going to come up to the File menu,…we're going to choose "Save As Template".…I'm going to target the Desktop and we're going to call this…"the_coffee_house.antempl", for animation template,…then we'll come down and choose Save.…

Right after we save this, Edge Animate will ask us…if we would like to import the template we just created.…and typically you would say yes,…but I'm going to come over here and click No.…I'm going to close my file…and bring us back to the Splash screen,…

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12/5/2014

Adobe Edge Animate offers a new way of creating rich and interactive animated content for websites, mobile apps, and ebooks. Like to code? You can access the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that powers your compositions from the Edge Code interface. If you're not an avid programmer, you can use Edge Animate's more design-friendly features to build the same graphics without code.

Want to learn more? Join Chris Converse in this course, as he covers all the essentials of this powerful toolset. Chris shows how to build basic compositions with shapes, text, images, and HTML5 video; animate the different elements; trigger actions and events; and incorporate custom CSS and JavaScript effects. He also shows how to make your Edge Animate layouts responsive, embed web fonts, and accommodate older browsers. When your composition is complete, learn how to add it to a webpage or take content into other applications like InDesign, Dreamweaver, Muse, and iBooks Author.